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Newport News, Va
Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Newport News - Virginia
Top 12. Best Tourist Attractions in Newport News - Virginia: The Mariners' Museum & Park, Virginia Living Museum, Newport News Park, The Noland Trail, U.S. Army Transportation Museum, USS Monitor Center, Newport News Visitor Center, Lee Hall Mansion, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Victory Arch, The Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center, Virginia War Museum
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Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.
The most widely accepted folktale is that city is the namesake of Captain Christopher Newport, commander of Susan Constant, flagship of the three ship English fleet that landed on Jamestown Island in 1607.
City played a major role in the Peninsula Campaign during the Civil War. Numerous earthen fortifications and attractions that relate to the Civil War can be experienced in Newport News. In addition, the famous Battle of the Ironclads took place off the shores of Newport News in 1862.
Among the city's major industries are shipbuilding, military, and aerospace. Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, owned by Northrop Grumman,[34] and the large coal piers supplied by railroad giant CSX Transportation, the modern Fortune 500 successor to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O).
Ships can be viewed from many spots along downtown Newport News including Victory Landing Park which adjoins the Virginia Advanced Shipbuilding and Carrier Integration Center building; at Northrop Grumman Newport News as well as the Monitor-Merrimac Overlook and the James River Bridge. Various cruise operations do offer tours from the water
James A. Fields House
James Apostle Fields (1844-1903) was born a slave in Hanover County, Virginia. In 1862, he escaped to Fort Monroe and found refuge as a contraband of war.
The Mariners' Museum/USS Monitor Center
Designated by Congress as Americas National Maritime Museum, The Mariners Museum offers a captivating look at centuries of seafaring adventures from around the world.
The dramatic USS Monitor Center brings to life the 'Battle of the Ironclads', and offers visitors the chance to walk the deck of a full-scale Monitor replica.
Other treasures await at this maritime gem: sit in an aircraft carrier ready room; explore the International Small Craft Collection; try your hand at Morse code; and marvel at the renowned Crabtree Collection of miniature ships.
Enjoy a picnic in the beautiful Park or walk the Noland Trail on the banks of Lake Maury. Shop for unique souvenirs in The Museum Shop and dine in the Compass Café.
Special events and evening programs are held year-round. Parking is free.
US Army Transportation Museum
The story of the Army's Transportation Corps, from horse-drawn wagons to all-terrain, armored vehicles, is told through models, dioramas and full-size vehicles and equipment. Indoor and outdoor pavilions feature wagons, trucks, airplanes, helicopters, locomotives, tugboats and experimental craft such as the flying jeep.
Endview Plantation
Completed in 1769 by William Harwood, Endview has been restored its 1862 appearance. In the 1850s, the home was purchased by Dr. Humphrey Harwood Curtis, William Harwoods great-grandson.
Endview is now a historic house museum and offers guided tours.Special events and evening programs are held year-round.
Virginia Living Museum
Living exhibits depict Virginias natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. Experience a steamy cypress swamp and cool mountain cove. Explore the underwater world of the Chesapeake Bay and the underground realm of a limestone cave.
Virginia War Museum
American military history unfolds at this War Museum. Outstanding collections of personal artifacts, weapons, vehicles, uniforms, posters and much more trace the development of the U.S. military from 1775 through the present.
Huntington Park offers a beach, two fishing piers, gardens, tennis, and museums. It is run by the Newport News Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Huntington Park is located at the base of the Newport News side of the James River Bridge. The park spans 60 acres (243,000 m²), making it the fourth-largest park in the Newport News Parks system. There are entrances on Mercury Boulevard just before the bridge, and on the park's eastern side at Warwick Boulevard.
Newport News Victory Arch
View of Oyster Point City Center
Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
Fort Fun in Huntington Park
Newport News is well known for the C&O coaling tower seen behind the locomotive.
James River Bridge, viewed from Huntington Park Beach.
Focus NNS: 50th Episode
Happy anniversary, Focus NNS! Nine years ago, we debuted our first Focus NNS episode; today, we’re celebrating episode #50! This momentous edition features Sea-Air-Space 2018, ACIBC Action Days, Earth Day and a look back at the past 50 episodes
N Great Neck Rd (Northeast, Virginia Beach, VA) to Csx Railroad
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0:08 Old Great Neck Rd
0:09 Phillips Ave
0:10 Fountain Dr
0:10 Maxey Dr
0:11 Virginia Beach-Norfolk Expressway
0:11 Fighter Dr
0:11 Air Station Dr
0:11 Garden Dr
0:12 Newall Ln
0:15 First Colonial Rd
0:16 West Ln
0:17 Oakshire Dr
0:17 Middle Ln
0:17 Roselynn Ln
0:17 N Oceana Blvd
0:18 Sykes Ave
0:18 Dozier Ln
0:18 Shipps Ln
0:18 Dukes Ln
0:19 Landstown -- Virginia Beach
0:19 Trailer City
0:20 N Birdneck Rd
0:20 Seatack
0:23 Seabridge Rd
0:24 Colon Dr
0:24 Jefferson Ave
0:24 Washington Ave
0:25 Parks Ave
0:27 16th St
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0:27 14th St
0:28 13th St
0:28 12th St
0:28 Cypress Ave
0:28 Newport News, VA
0:30 Old Oyster Point Rd
0:30 256
0:31 Victory Blvd
0:32 255
0:35 Bland Blvd
0:38 Richneck Rd
0:40 Chinkapin Trl
0:42 Csx Railroad
0:42 Industrial Park Dr
0:42 230kV transmission line
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N Great Neck Rd (Norfolk, Virginia) to Csx Railroad (Newport News, VA)
Sep 2012
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd ˈaɪlɨnd/ or /rɵˈdaɪlɨnd/), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, but the second most densely populated of the 50 US states behind New Jersey. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west and Massachusetts to the north and east, and it shares a water boundary with New York's Long Island to the southwest. It also has the longest official name of all the states.
Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.
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Rochambeau Dr (Virginia) to E Virginia Beach Blvd (Phoebus) via Magruder Area, Northampton, M (...)
Watch in 720p full-screen to view map info. Visit for more info. - Waypoints: 0:12 Cloverleaf Ln
0:17 Burkes Corner
0:17 East Rochambeau Dr
0:21 Barlow Road
0:25 238
0:29 Colonial National Historic Parkway
0:31 Alexander Lee Pky
0:31 Penniman Road
0:31 234
0:33 243A
0:35 243B
0:35 James City County
0:40 Jefferson Avenue
0:41 115kV transmission line
0:42 Yorktown Road
0:46 250
0:54 255
0:55 255A
0:55 255B
0:58 Victory Blvd
0:58 256
1:02 J Clyde Morris Boulevard
1:03 Harpersville Road
1:04 Trillium
1:06 Big Bethel Road
1:06 Big Bethel Rd
1:06 Town Center Way
1:07 261A
1:08 Hampton Roads Center Parkway
1:08 261B
1:11 230kV transmission line
1:12 263
1:12 W Mercury Blvd
1:16 265
1:17 N Armistead Ave
1:17 Spring St
1:17 Rip Rap Road
1:19 Csx Railroad
1:19 E Pembroke Ave
1:20 S Boxwood St
1:21 Settlers Landing Rd
1:22 268
1:22 S Mallory Steet
1:23 Home Pl
1:23 National Ave
1:24 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
1:33 Bayville St
1:34 13th View St
1:41 Executive Dr
1:41 W Evans St
1:41 W Bayview Blvd
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1:44 Granby St
1:45 Waco Street
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1:46 S Naval Base Rd
1:47 277
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1:47 Tidewater Dr
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1:48 Partridge Street
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1:49 Chesapeake Blvd
1:51 Strand Street
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1:54 281A
1:54 281B
1:54 N Military Hwy
1:54 281
1:56 282
1:59 E Virginia Beach Blvd
1:59 Yoder Avenue
2:00 Benton Street
2:00 Bartee St
2:00 Bartee Street
2:00 Lucas Avenue
2:01 284A
2:01 Virginia Beach-Norfolk Expressway
2:02 Chambers St
2:03 Poplar Hall Dr
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Rochambeau Dr (Virginia) to E Virginia Beach Blvd
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History of the Jews in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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The history of the Jews in the United States has been part of the American national fabric since colonial times. Until the 1830s, the Jewish community of Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest in North America. In the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, many Jewish immigrants left from various nations to enter the U.S. as part of the general rise of immigration movements. For example, many German Jews arrived in the middle of the 19th century, established clothing stores in towns across the country, formed Reform synagogues, and were active in banking in New York. Immigration of Eastern Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, in 1880–1914, brought a large, poor, traditional element to New York City. They were Orthodox or Conservative in religion. They founded the Zionist movement in the United States, and were active supporters of the Socialist party and labor unions. Economically, they concentrated in the garment industry.
Refugees arrived from diaspora communities in Europe after World War II and, after 1970, from the Soviet Union. Politically, American Jews have been especially active as part of the liberal New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party since the 1930s, although recently there is a conservative Republican element among the Orthodox. They have displayed high education levels, and high rates of upward social mobility. The Jewish communities in small towns have dwindled, as the population concentrated in large metropolitan areas.
In the 1940s, Jews comprised 3.7% of the national population. Today, at about 6.5 million, the population is 2% of the national total—and shrinking as a result of smaller family sizes and interfaith marriages resulting in nonobservance. The largest population centers are the metropolitan areas of New York (2.1 million in 2000), Los Angeles (668,000), Miami (331,000), Philadelphia (285,000), Chicago (265,000) and Boston (254,000).
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John F. Kennedy | Wikipedia audio article
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John Fitzgerald Jack Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented the 11th congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, he published his book entitled Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. At age 43, he became the second-youngest man to serve as president (after Theodore Roosevelt), the youngest man to be elected as U.S. president as well as being the first (and only) Roman Catholic to occupy that office.
Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the civil rights movement, but he was largely unsuccessful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was never prosecuted due to his murder by Jack Ruby two days later; Ruby was sentenced to death and died while the sentence was on appeal in 1967. Pursuant to the Presidential Succession Act, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president later that day. Both the FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups challenged the findings of the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, including the Civil Rights and the Revenue Acts of 1964. Kennedy continues to rank highly in historians' polls of U.S. presidents and with the general public. His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup's history of systematically measuring job approval.
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Formal 05/14/13 Session - Norfolk City Council
13:44 PH-1 Public hearing on the application of Unique Auto by Robyn Thomas to operate an Automobile Repair and Sales and Service Establishment at 2406 Colonial Avenue and 420 and 430 West 24th Street
22:50 PH-2 Public hearing to amend the Zoning Ordinance, 35th Street Pedestrian Commercial Overlay District
23:40 PH-3 Public hearing to amend the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Norfolk, clarifying whom may initiate text amendments
24:28 PH-4 Public hearing to amend the Zoning Ordinance, 21st Street Pedestrian Commercial Overlay District
30:56 PH-5 Public hearing on the application of Troy Robertson, for a change of zoning located at 1532 Aspin Street and 1533-1539 Sewells Point Road
31:48 PH-6 Public hearing on the application of Norfolk Building Corporation, for a Conditional rezoning on property located at 3448 Thomas Street
35:52 CONSENT AGENDA AVAILABLE AT WWW.NORFOLK.GOV
35:56 R-1 An Ordinance appropriating $800,000 from the Land Acquisition/Revolving Fund balance, establishing a Healthcare Fund, authorizing Short-term Equipment Financing, increasing certain fines and fees, increasing the real estate property tax, allowing for National Fingerprint checks, accepting and authorizing HUD Entitlement Grants, providing funds for a real estate tax exemption and deferral and regulating the payment of money from the City Treasury.
01:10:18 R-2 An Ordinance approving the Capital Improvement Plan Budget for the Fiscal Year beginning July 1, 2013 and ending June 30, 2014
01:11:06 R-3 An Ordinance approving and adopting the Fiscal Year 2014 Compensation Plans for officers and employees of the City
01:11:38 R-4 An Ordinance appropriating Grant Funds totaling $49,371,032.00 to the School Board of the City of Norfolk for Title I Programs, other special programs and the School Nutrition Services Program
01:12:12 R-5 An Ordinance appropriating a sum equivalent to 50% of the revenues from the two-dollar flat tax per hotel room, authorizing the expenditure of that sum as a Grant to the entities that form the Norfolk Consortium
01:12:35 R-6 An Ordinance approving the Budget for the Norfolk Law Library
01:14:55 R-7 An Ordinance to permit the renovation of an Industrial Building for Mixed Uses at 945 to 949 Woodrow Avenue
01:15:30 R-8 An Ordinance to permit modifications to a retail building at 3212 Tidewater Drive
01:15:54 R-9 An Ordinance to permit the operation of a used merchandise sales establishment located at 2515 Granby Street
01:16:17 R-10 An Ordinance to operate and entertainment establishment on property located at 923 Glenrock Road
01:16:44 R-11 A Special Exception to operate an eating and drinking establishment on property located at 429 Granby Street
01:17:20 R-12 A Special Exception to permit the operation of an entertainment establishment on property located at 421 to 423 Granby Street
01:17:32 R-13 A Special Exception to permit the operation of an entertainment establishment on property located at 9583 Shore Drive
01:24:50 R-14 A Special Exception to permit the operation of an automobile and truck repair facility on property located at 742 to 756 East 25th Street and 745 East 26th Street
01:25:28 R-15 A Special Exception to operate an entertainment establishment on property located at 1309 Raleigh Avenue.
R-15A A Special Exception to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption on property located at 1309 Raleigh Avenue
01:26: 15 R-16 An Ordinance to schedule a City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:00p.m.
01:26:40 R-17 An Ordinance authorizing the purchase from CMC Steel Fabricators, Inc., designated as 1344 Ballentine Boulevard, for the sum of $2,300,000.00
02:08:00 R-18 An Ordinance authorizing the purchase from Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, designated as 321 E. Little Creek Road for the sum of $179,000.00
Rhode Island | Wikipedia audio article
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Rhode Island ( (listen)), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest state in area, the seventh least populous, and is the second most densely populated. It has the longest official name of any state. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts to the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. It also shares a small maritime border with New York. Providence is the state capital and most populous city in Rhode Island.
On May 4, 1776, the Colony of Rhode Island was the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and it was the fourth among the newly independent states to ratify the Articles of Confederation on February 9, 1778. The state boycotted the 1787 convention which drew up the United States Constitution and initially refused to ratify it; it was the last of the states to do so on May 29, 1790.Rhode Island's official nickname is The Ocean State, a reference to the large bays and inlets that amount to about 14 percent of its total area.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)